News of the week condensed summary falls into place
Harriman is ill at his New York home. Senator Bailey of Texas may not be reelected. Dixon of Montana may succeed Clark in the senate. Raisuli the Moroccan bandit is beaten and a fugitive. A northwest cold snap causes fuel shortages. A Philadelphia bank explosion injures several. six others are found. The Interstate Commerce Commission probes the Washington suburb wreck. Nine buildings and mine machinery blown by dynamite. several injured. Japanese laborers mob a white man in California. Rail workers threaten to shut roads across North America. Oklahoma towns suffer fuel scarcity. corncobs price high. Secretary Hitchcock orders public domain fences torn down. prosecutions to follow. A Providence clergyman says the Bible is full of errors. Jones seeks Washington streams surveyed by engineers. Heney resigns to pursue San Francisco graft cases. Stewart offered Colorado Springs land office post. to vacate March 4. Heavy rains trigger mud avalanches on Vesuvius. many farms burned. six bodies found. Congress to authorize Tillamook Bay survey.
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Philip B. Stewart
Colorado Springs
General Land Office
Richards
Mount Vesuvius
Congress
Tillamook Bay
Portland Markets Daily Prices Report
Agricultural goods and market quotes for Portland include fruits pears apples cranberries and pears with varied per unit prices. Vegetables list turnips carrots beets cabbage celery onions and squash with weights and unit prices. Grains hay butter and dairy products priced across categories including butter fat and poultry meats with ranges for live and dressed varieties.
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Oregon
Burbanks
Eine Oxen Ee Best
Congress resumes business after holidays in Brownsville inquiry
Senate leaders debated the discharge of the Twenty-fifth Infantry over Brownsville shootings with Culberson defending Texas Rangers Captain McDonald as Foraker pressed the inquiry into the president's order. Seminores introduced land lease limits for coal and gas beds and judges and customs officials for Puget Sound. A separate resolution by Morrell seeks a congressional investigation of recent railroad wrecks citing worker overwork and power to subpoena witnesses.
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Washington
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Senate
Culberson
Texas
Foraker
Lodge
MaCaldereon
Captain McDonald
Texas Rangers
Blockson
Nelson
Bénator Piles
Ninth Judicial District
Puget Sound
Port Townsend
Morrell
Pennsylvania
Congress
Omnibus claims bill debated in House. Engel named mining panel
The omnibus claims bill with Bowman and Tucker act appropriations was debated five hours in Congress. Speaker Cannon announced Representative Engel right of California to replace J N Williamson of Oregon on the Mines and Mining Committee, after Williamson missed every session and faced land fraud convictions in Oregon.
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Washington
Cannon
Engelright
California
Committee On Mines and Mining
J. N. Williamson
Oregon
Williamson
Takeuchi Case Reported to Tokyo by Japanese Consul
San Francisco report says T Takesh uki of Berkeley publisher of the Revolution will be reported to Tokio by Japanese Consul General Uyeno. Secretary Oyama confirms no action here. local authorities handle it while Tokio receives a copy of the Revolution. Hart North has gathered evidence and will forward it to Washington for possible arrests.
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San Francisco
T. Takeuchi
Berkeley
Tokio
Uyeno
Takeuchi
Oyama
United States
Hart H. North
Washington
North
Frozen 10 Death on Road Near Nevada Utah Line
Duncan Caggie of Ogden Utah was found frozen to death near the Southern Pacific tracks between Toano and Cobre close to the Nevada Utah line. He had been walking from a pumping station west of Toano toward Cobre when the extreme cold overtook him.
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Ogden
Utah
Duncan Caggie
Southern Pacific
Toano
Cobre
Nevada-Utah
Caggie
Miners Strike for Eight-hour Day in Grass Valley
Grass Valley California January 4 six hundred fifty miners walked out in a peaceful strike demanding an eight hour day. All but fifty miners across four smaller mines joined the action. A peaceful settlement is considered probable.
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Grass Valley
Cal
City of Panama wreck feared off California coast
Reported late last night that the Pacific Mail steamer City of Panama left San Francisco December 31 for Ancon and was wrecked with 60 passengers and 56 crew aboard. Life rafts found ashore at Waddell Beach and south with provisions, while storms hinder rescue. return to shore not confirmed. Washington actions note federal court rulings on employers liability act, with President Roosevelt planning an appeal.
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Sanisco
Cal
Santa Crus
Waddell Beach
Here
Pacific Mail
City of
Panama
San Francisco
Ancon
Washington
Evans
Louisville
McCall
Memphis
Congress
Roosevelt
White House
California Insurance Law Remodel to Push Deposits
After the California legislature convenes, the first step is remodeling the insurance laws. A feature will require foreign insurers to hold substantial deposits in California banks as good faith guarantees. A lobbyist battle is expected in Sacramento with opposition. The plan also seeks full disclosure of securities and a mandate to buy first class securities.
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San Francisco
California
Sacramento
Lincoln Inaugural Urges Ban on Lobbying Passes
George L. Sheldon in his inaugural address calls for a ban on the lobby in the state house and for a law making it illegal to give or accept railroad passes. In the Nebraska House Representative Whit ham offers a resolution to eject any lobbyist from the floor if spotted, a measure that the house adopts.
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Lincoln
Neb
George L. Sheldon
Goverorr
State House
House of Representatives
Whiteham
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition backers visit Seattle
Governor Hog gatt of Alaska territory Watson C. Squire ex senator from Washington Ira A. Nadeau Seattle chamber executive officer Harry White ex mayor of Seattle now in Los Angeles Prof Edmond E Meany University of Washington and Arthur B. Carle Seattle here in support of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition to be held in Seattle in 1909.
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New York
Hoggatt
Alaska
Territory
Watson C. Squire
United States
Washington
Ira A. Nadeau
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Harry White
Seattle
Los Angeles
Edmond 8. Meany
University of Washington
Arthur B. Carle
No Laws Against Japanese Tabled in Honolulu
In Honolulu on January 5 it is believed the government plans to resist any territorial laws that would discriminate against Japanese residents. The issue centers on preventing passage of discriminatory measures by the territorial legislature.
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Honolulu
Postal Receipts Large Increase in Postal Service
Washington reports a strong rise in postal revenue about 15 million for the year and plans to raise clerk salaries. Hitchcock notes population growth, uniform post office box rents, and trial automobile collection in Baltimore with expansion planned in other cities to speed service.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Congress
New York City
Baltimore
Record Immigrant Admissions Hit All-Time High in 1906
Washington January 8 1906 immigrant statistics show 1 166 353 total admissions at U S ports 1 100 735 immigrant aliens 65 618 non immigrant aliens. Italy Russia Greece and Turkey lead gains while Austria Hungary Italy China and Japan show large flows. Reports warn of disease linked deportations and renewed white slave trade via Mexico.
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Washington
Frank Sargent
United States
Department
Ireland
England
Sweden
Germany
Denmark
Scotland
Italy
Russia
Greece
Turkey
Austria-Hungary
Sicily
Sardinia
Finland
China
Japan
West Indies
Mexican
Mexico
U S Ranks Third in World Trade Value
A Commerce and Labor bureau statement reports the United States as third in value of manufactured goods entering world commerce. Exports for the past year exceed $700 million, a figure never reached before, and American trade in foreign markets is now about double what it was eight years ago.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Salvadoran Army Moves Against Mutiny Unrest in San Marcos
Panama dispatch reports San Salvador mobilizing forces to crush revolutionaries led by General Dionisio Guitesier. In San Marcos and Colon a mutinous band clashed with government troops, who defeated them, killed one, wounded three, and captured 11.
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Panama
San Salvador
Honduras
Dionisio Guitesier
San Mareno
Colon
Missionaries claim Tahiti ceded to Britain by France
The Age reports Pacific missionaries say France ceded Tahiti to Great Britain in exchange for territorial concessions in Burma or further India. Premier Deakin says he has no information on the matter.
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Melbourne
The
Age
Pacific Islands
France
Tahiti
Great Britain
Burman
India
Deakin Rave
MISTAKE COST LIVES IN TRAIN WRECK NEAR VEILAND
A head on collision four miles west of Veiland Kansas on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific lines killed four white men a Black train porter and about 30 Mexican laborers injured 56. Officials blame telegraph operator John Lynes 19 for failing to stop No 29 at Volland after orders to hold it. Fire from lamps spread through wreckage trapping many passengers.
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Topeka
Irael
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Veiland
Kan
Chicago
el Paso
Columbus Junction
Mexico
John Lynes
Volland
Penny
Generous to Columbia in river and harbor bill
Senator Fulton after a conference with Chairman Burton expects the river and harbor bill to favor Oregon. The measure aims to complete the south jetty at the Columbia mouth with 2,450,000 in funds, including 1,000,000 cash and a continuing contract for the rest to speed completion. The House committee may exceed 750,000. Fulton would back a senate amendment if cuts occur.
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Washington
Burton
River and Harbor Committee
Fulton
Oregon
Columbia River
House
Tryies
Piles
Senate
Grim Terra Cotta wreck bodies identified in morgue mix
Washington January 8 identification efforts at the morgue reveal mangled remains from the Terra Cotta wreck, including baby skull fragment a man’s crushed foot a woman’s hand and a mix of body parts and garments ground into coal dust.
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Washington
Aleo
Utah officials dig up fares after pass law lapse
A party of Utah state officials arriving from Los Angeles on a delayed Salt Lake route train found conductors would not honor complimentary transport after the anti pass law took effect January 1. They paid full regular fare for the trip, after the old year ended. The governor was in the party.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Los Angeles
Salt Lake
Senator Fulton Comments on Japanese Question
On January 3 at the White House Senator Fulton discussed the Japanese question. He said an issue could be made of it but will probably not be pursued, noting coastal sentiment is shifting as people understand the administration's stance and that certain steps must be taken through diplomacy.
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Washington
White House
Fulton
Forest service grazing quotas set for Blue Mountain zones
In 1907 the Forest Service will allow grazing of 220000 sheep and 16250 cattle in the Eastern Blue Mountain forest reserve and 240000 sheep and 28000 cattle in the Western division along with horses in both zones, outlining seasonal allotments.
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Washington
Forest Service
Blue Mountain Forest Reserve
Northwest lumbermen seek receivers for railways over car shortage
Victor H. Beckman of the Pacific Coast Lumbermen's Association asserts Northwest lumbermen will apply for receivers for the Northern Pacific and Great Northern if rail service fails public duties, and plan damage suits potentially exceeding 15000. He urges Roosevelt to back a reciprocal demurrage law and claims extensive car shortages have forced mills to close and go bankrupt.
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Chicago
Victor H. Beckman
Pacific Coast Lumbermen's Association
Lumbermen of the Northwest Pro
Roosevelt
Beckman
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Mr. Beckman
Washington
Negro Troops Ordered to Philippines From U S Army
Washington January 7 The Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty fifth Infantry along with all other black regiments in the regular army are ordered to prepare for service in the Philippines. They will sail between March 5 and June 5. Major General Bell notes the move is by turn not to remove them from the United States.
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Washington
Ninth
Tenth Cavalry
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Philippines
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Sixth Cavalry
Bell
United States
Indians Tell Of Fraud At Land Trial In Omaha
The Jan 7 report centers on Harry A. Cloud a full blood Ogalalla Indian Carlisle graduate and Red Cloud kin whose testimony links a $25 filing deal to W C Smoot for the Modisettes at Rushville. Six other Indian witnesses corroborate the pattern saying they were paid $25 to file actions.
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Omaha
Harry A. Cloud
Carlisle Indian School
Red Cloud
W.C. Smoot
Rushville
Coal Shortage Strains Dakota Town. Rail Relief Sought
A telegram to the Interstate Commerce Commission from Granville North Dakota signals serious fuel shortages due to car shortages. The commission asked Great Northern President Hill for relief and reports some improvement since recent railroad aid orders with more relief anticipated.
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Dakota
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Granville
N. D
President Hill
Great Northern
Interstate Commerce Board to Hear Chicago Questions
All members except Mr. Cockrell will assemble in Chicago this week for hearings. Today the commission will hear a complaint on two terminal charges at the stock yards. Tuesday, the panel will continue examining the Harriman railroad coalition.
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Chicago
Washington
Interstate Commerce
Cockrell
Harriman Railroads
City of Panama Arrives Mazatlan after Gas Incident
A telegram to the Associated Press reports the steamer City of Panama en route from San Francisco to Panama reached Mazatlan at 6:00 PM local time. The ship experienced a minor gas issue but all aboard were safe and unharmed.
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Mexico City
Mazatlan
Associated Press
City of Panama
San Francisco
Panama
Japanese Squadron Delayed Departure for Hawaii Coast
Tokyo reports the training squadron of cruisers bound for Honolulu and the Pacific coast will be officially postponed for a week to ten days.
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Tokio
Honolulu
Pacific Coast
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